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on Thursday, July 27th, 2006


I’m really excited about Brian De Palma’s upcoming adaptation of James Ellroy’s classic noir novel The Black Dahlia. I remember discovering Ellroy for the first time with this book, and the read was like a dark fever dream. If De Palma is truly on form, he stands a chance of getting some of Ellroy’s obsessional memory piece on screen with its perversities intact.

It’s hard to tell from the trailer, but I have my hopes up.

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  • Daniel Nemet-Nejat

    Ellroy is tough to adapt because his worldview is so bleak, yet moral and very judgemental, qualities that don’t always work in film.

    His book, My Dark Places, is astonishing. As he recollects his mother and her murder, he refuses to sugarcoat her promiscuity and boozing because, he argues, that would be wrong and unfair to her. He argues that he loves his mother in totality, he can’t pick and choose what about her he loves or doesn’t. An inspiring and brave sentiment.

  • Scott Macaulay

    I agree. “My Dark Places” is amazing. For a while David Duchovny was attached to a feature version that Robert Greenwald was going to direct. I want to say Jan Oxenberg wrote the script, but I’m not sure of that last part.

    I don’t think the movie ever got made, though.

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